You know, I try to time things so that I can do posts when I’m in a good mood, when I’m not tired, when I’m not rushed, when I’m inspired, when I’m not stressed out, when the girls aren’t screaming or fighting. And you know when that is? Never.

So I’m going to write anyway.

Some guy posted a stupid comment about my election feelings, and five years ago the old “if-you-don’t-like-it-here-then-why-don’t-you-leave” remark would have earned a two page essay complete with footnotes on what cop-out bullshit that is. Here’s what he gets today: whatever.

Ugh. It’s late, and the brain is starting to fade…

I got a case for the beloved ipod, and discovered to my annoyance that it renders the dock useless unless you want to take the case off all the time, which is a real pain in the ass. So I may be selling an ipod dock pretty soon. Not sure. Brian emailed me about the iTunes thing, and I have to agree I am not too keen on the way it tries to take over everything. Already I’m hating the way it tries to organize things, and I am afraid of giving it too much power because I can only imagine what it would do to 48GB of MP3s and all their tags. I wish it gave you more choices, and if Apple’s solution to everything is playlists then they really need to get over it. Playlist, schmaylist. I DON’T HAVE TIME to sit around all day a create playlists–I just want to throw a song on the drive and walk away. But no, I have to add it to a library first, THEN load the ipod, THEN send it over. Arrrgh.

Still, it is beautiful, and my new best friend sounds great. Everybody who’s tried it has commented on how good the sound is (yes, even with the crappy ipod earphones it came with). Bruce came home from his poetry meetup this evening, noticed I was blissfully tuned out, and just smiled at me. (Note to siblings that work for social services: I keep the baby monitor turned on right in front of my face when I do this).

Oh yeah, thanks for all the ipod links, kc!.

Been running the new, official release of Firefox and loving that also. If you haven’t tried it, whatcha waitin’ for? Life is too short to apply a security patch every day, people. And doesn’t FIREFOX sound so much cooler than IE? Sure does, baby.

Oh, and the business site is more or less finished. Yes, I know the front page renders differently in IE–that’s why I want you to switch, see? Because if I knew the code that would make IE friends with my front page, I would tap that right in. Unfortuately I don’t. It looks better in Firefox.

The section decribing my uneasy beginnings with computers is true. In fact, it doesn’t even begin to convey how much I hated them in the late 80s. But we’re talking Windows 3.1–good God, who can blame me?

I still haven’t really worked out prices, because I haven’t had a chance to research local rates. I’m shooting for a middle-ground but I’m not sure where that is. I think my design skills are capable, but I don’t do breathtaking, flashy ohmygodithinkijustpeedmypants stuff. With the limited time I have these days the best I can shoot for is clean, organized and Not Ugly, and I say this with a sigh, but it’s reality.* However, I think for certain people and organizations that’s just fine, and that’s who I am aiming to get interested–not the giant McCorporations or, I dunno…people that want alien bunny flash animations. As for repairs, I’m simply not going to get in over my head with stuff like futzing around with motherboards and overclocking and all that crap. A lot of people around here don’t even know what a damned zip disk is.

You might also notice…(clearing throat) *ahem*…something’s a bit odd in the portfolio section. The link to this blog…doesn’t go here. It goes to a kind of copy of this site. Because I am just a little paranoid about mixing business and pleasure, let’s put it that way. Maybe it’s stupid, and it’s possible they might find there way here anyway. But I’d like to think I can say whatever want here, without worrying about offending all those filthy-rich Republicans that need their computers fixed. When I get another site finished I’ll probably replace it.

Last week I sold my first refurbished computer system to a college student. I tried to fix his old one in the bargain so he could turn around and sell it off, but I have never seen such a messed up hard drive, and it died after the second reformat. He still hasn’t called to pick the damn thing up. I hope he does, because the tower is huge–the twins could freakin’ rollerskate on it.

But he bought me an ipod, so life is good. And if you don’t mind me listening to the same Pet Shop Boys album ten times while I design or build something for you, well hey, then you know who to call dontcha?

* “Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.” — Henry Van Dyke
A lovely quote in the profile of the lovely emdot who takes lovely pictures. Thank you.

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Links for the day:
Susan’s finally blogging! That’s right, resistance is futile.
Poor Mena
Jewelry to wear while fucking on home video
Symbolify (forget where I found this–it’s fun)
Breakfast of Champions - this is what the twins drink instead of cow juice
Turn me on, why don’t you